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fectly with Hagen's description.* In these specimens the cT 

 appendages are much longer and more slender than in coquilletti, 

 at least half as long as the last abdominal segment; the tibial 

 spurs are not longer than the two basal joints of the tarsi, while in 

 coquilletti they are as long as the four basal joints. There are 

 also other differences. 



Brachynemurus hubbardii Currie. 



B. cockerelli Banks. 



I have examined the type of cockerelli and can find no differ 

 ence between it and this species. Mr. Banks, in the remarks 

 following his description,! says : " From J3. htibbardi it is dis 

 tinct by the yellow color, markings of head, etc." But typical hub 

 bardii is yellow or yellowish, and the markings of the head are 

 not, in my opinion, essentially different; in some examples of 

 the new variety nubcculipennis the longitudinal median line on 

 the face is not apparent, showing that these head markings are 

 subject to variation. The confusion as to color maybe explained 

 by the fact that, at the time cockerelli was described, Mr. Banks 

 did not possess true hubbardii, all his specimens belonging to 

 nubeculipennis. 



Brachynemurus hubbardii, variety nubeculipennis, n. var. 



Cj\ 9- Very similar to typical B. hubbardii, but smaller, luteous in 

 stead of yellowish, rather densely hirsute, the fore wings narrower, quite 

 extensively and evenly sprinkled with fine fuscous cloudings principally 

 on the smaller forks and the extremities of the transverse veins; the hind 

 wings also sometimes have similar, but fainter, cloudings, or at least 

 have one at tip of median vein. 



Length, ^ 39-8, 9 28.1; alar expanse, ^41.4, 9 48; greatest width 

 of anterior wing, ^ 5, 9 6.2; antenna, $ 7, 9 5-3 mm - 



Phoenix, June 27 to September 18 (Kunze : 18 c?cT, 32 99); 

 Prescott, August 21 to 31 (Kunze : 2 c?d% i '$) ; " So. Arizona" 

 (Poling: i ). 



Type. No. 6884, U. S. National Museum. 



I can find no other differences between this and typical hub 

 bardii, yet the two forms are readily distinguished in nearly 

 every case. One specimen cited above, " So. Arizona, Poling," 

 is similar in color to the variety nubeculipennis, but the wings 

 are not more spotted than in the typical form and the wing- 

 veins are yellowish instead of luteous. It is somewhat uncertain 

 to which form it should be assigned and it may be best to class it 

 as an intermediate. Two other luteous specimens, broken, from 

 Columbus, Texas, July, 1879 (E. A. Schwarz), and Carrizo 

 Springs, Texas, August 25, 1885 (Dr. A. Wadgymar), probably 

 belong to the variety, though the latter specimen has small, al- 



*Can. Ent, xx, No. 4, pp. 73, 74, April, 1888. 

 fEnt. News, xiu, No. 3, p. 86, March, 1902. 



